Remember the Alamo or Remember the Maine were battle cries, for others it is Remember Sand Creek, Remember Camp Grant, or Remember Wounded Knee.

But we should remember Wounded Knee 2 also for the carnage visited upon it by the American Indian Movement.

We should remember the lives of those they took, the people they held hostage, and the sacking and gutting of a community they perpetrated.

We should remember those they dispossessed from their homes like Wilbur Riegert, a wheelchair bound elder, so Russell Means wouldn’t have to maintain the facade of a last real ndn 24/7 and sleep on the ground like his ancestors or in a tipi after having been shown by a white man how to build one.

We should remember how a “warrior” like Dennis Bank$ slunk away with his tail between his legs when it ended after seventy odd days.

We should remember a black civil rights activist by the name of Perry Ray Robinson jr who was shot, stuffed in a closet to bleed out and die, and Bank$ instructions to Chris Westerman to bury Ray’s body along with others in a place they couldn’t be found.

We should remember Jumping Bull, the lives lost, the lies and myths that emerged in the aftermath.

We should also remember that a leadership of “warriors” and “liberators” authored and condoned the murder of a woman by the name of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash predicated in part by Leonard Peltier boasting in front of her that he had shot a federal agent at Jumping Bull as the “mfker begged for his life”.

We should remember that this same leadership would get in bed with anyone, any entity, any foreign government, even gangs and drug dealers when it came to money.

That they would commodify every aspect of traditions and ceremonies belonging to the nations if it would turn a buck.

We should remember how the media glorified and romanticized common criminals in their quest for a Hollywoodesque tale of cowboys and Indians and in doing facilitated the activities of thugs.

There is a circular aspect to life, we enter, traverse the circle and then depart.We are born and in turn birth new generations – we begin our day rising from a bed and end it returning to the same bed…..circular.

And so it is the free Peltier myth has come full circle returning to it’s place of origin in Fargo, N.D.

Due in part I imagine to a decline in verbal and monetary support – a long running off off Broadway theatrical presentation.

Street theater with the obligatory mimes, clowns, hustlers, sleight of hand, and passing the hat around – now reduced to metaphorically sleeping in a cardboard box and begging for some change.

Hey mister can you spare a dime for a “political prisoner”, a “hero, leader, and warrior”?

This isn’t about commitment, it’s about perpetuating a scam, it’s about making shit up and being a global epicenter for a fake news story.

It’s about the attrition of time as the result of lies and a man who could never keep his story straight.

It’s about senseless murder, a penchant for young girls, thuggery, and interrogating a woman by the name of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash at gunpoint who was to become yet another AIM murder victim.

It’s about Peltier and the same crew interrogating Minnie Two Shoes a year or so earlier.

It’s also about the refusal and inability of Peltierites inspite of numerous invitations to rebut what has been presented on this blog site and others multiple times.

So how about it Bank$ in your self proclaimed capacity as a “spiritual leader” or any other Peltierite is it a good day to step up “in the spirit of Crazy Horse”, a good day to be an “Ojibwa Warrior” or any other kind of “warrior”?

That coin magnetism spoken of in a previous blog related to buffalo nickels has kicked in again courtesy of an elderly man I help out from time to time.

Seems he was going through various cans, jars, and shoe boxes and ran across an 1874 Indian head penny and passed it on to me – goes into the “gatherers” collection of coins and things to use in various projects.

Kinda piqued my interest so I did a related wiki and discovered that they were minted from 1859 to 1909 – strikes me as a little odd that minting began and continued through the “Indian wars” as depictions on coins, stamps,and such are usually an honorific and during the majority of the minting policies and public sentiment had little if anything to do with honoring the nations as a people.

In 1874, the year this particular coin was minted the Red River War was waged in Texas against the Southern Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche, and Kiowas – that’s a hundred and forty two years ago and yet the inequities remain.

The intent of this war was to break and subsequently remove the above named nations to reservations and basically achieved that goal, even while coins were being produced depicting an indigenous man.

Perhaps it would have been more appropriate, more truthful, to have minted a coin depicting the reality of Sand Creek, Camp Grant, the Washita, or Wounded Knee.

The second photo is said to be a depiction of a battle known as Buffalo Wallow that took place during the Red River War.

Speaking of jerks – add this one to the Monsanto community of which jerks seems to be the major demographic.

I read an article not long ago bemoaning what was referred to as “the war on science” – an article completely ignoring that it is science that created not only every toxin that harms the environment but also weapons of mass destruction.

Science has it’s place but it is the effete snobbery and sense of entitlement permeating the majority of the scientific community that is offensive.

I happen to know a scientist who once told me during a discussion that scientists have no moral responsibility, as though they singularly are unaccountable in their “quest for knowledge”.

A “privilege” none should hold.

I believe this sense of no moral responsibility has been the prevailing attitude of polgroms, eugenics, and every genocidal event that has taken place in the history of humankind.

It was certainly the hallmark of places like Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, Sand Creek, Wounded Knee, Camp Grant, and an endless shamefullist of others.

But then this same scientist has voiced the opinion in private that African American slaves in this country actually had it pretty good as slavery was nothing more than a matter of economics with slaves being the equivalent of farm machinery requiring care and maintenance – and yes there may have been isolated cases of abuse but they were not the norm.

As I say such opinions based on what is referred to as “critical thinking” are never uttered in public or any public venue – the explanation being “you can’t say such things publicly”.

And why would that be? Is it because they are grossly callous and speak to an insufferable arrogance?

Prior to that I may have been somewhat ambivalent opinion wise when it came to science, but no more – I in fact believe scientists regardless of where they reside who work on weapons programs like the Manhattan Project should be tried with crimes against humanity, publicly pilloried in stocks, and then jailed.

Likewise those engaging in the research and development of any chemical harmful to the environment and people.

Science has produced some remarkable advancements, saved lives, increased knowledge and understanding, but in referencing the above previously mentioned has also ushered in a modern dark age consisting of the ability of mankind to completely annihilate itself, destroy the environment, and undergo genetic mutations resulting from the exposure to literally tens of thousands of chemical compounds on a daily basis.

In view of these realities I say it is fitting that science now rails about global warming, I see it as tacit admission of complicity and an unspoken awareness of an existing moral responsibility resulting from that in doing so.

Should a “war” be conducted against science? Not in my opinion, it would be enough if it were held to account and morally responsible for the misery it has or may create due to their oft times corporate and military industrial complex complicity.

I’d like to believe the opinions I cited expressed by the scientist I know aren’t commonly held, but that seems to be increasingly difficult to do.